December 2010
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It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling...
– T.S. Eliot (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
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Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm;
Time and fevers...
– from “Lullaby” by W.H. Auden
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My husband and child smiling out of the family photo;
Their smiles catch onto...
– from “Tulips” by Sylvia Plath
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"Under Taurus" by Louise Glück
We were on the pier, you desiring that I see the Pleiades. I could see everything but what you wished. Now I will follow. There is not a single cloud; the stars appear, even the invisible sister. Show me where to look, as though they will stay where they are. Instruct me in the dark.
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I once knew a madman who thought the end of the world had come. He was a...
– from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame
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"The Hug" by Thom Gunn
It was your birthday, we had drunk and dined Half of the night with our old friend Who’d showed us in the end To a bed I reached in one drunk stride. Already I lay snug, And drowsy with the wine dozed on one side.
I dozed, I slept. My sleep broke on a hug, Suddenly, from behind, In which the full lengths of our bodies pressed: Your instep to my heel, My shoulder-blades against your chest....
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"Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the...
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Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive. Be...
– Infinite Jest, p. 175 (via dennymayo)
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I sat upon the shore
Fishing, with the arid plain behind me
Shall I at least...
– from “The Wasteland” by T.S. Eliot